Legal Services

LEGAL SERVICES

Mandate

The Directorate: Legal Services is responsible for the administration of legislation and legal policy on matters at national , regional and international level relating to mutual legal assistance, extraditions, human rights and humanitarian law, bilateral and multilateral affairs, policy and research, legal education, professional discipline of legal practitioners, and authentication of public documents for use in foreign jurisdiction by issuing of Apostille in terms of the Hague convention of 5 October 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legislation for Foreign Public Documents (Apostille Convention).

Our key role...

Is to provide efficient, cost effective and specialised service of issuance of apostille, service of foreign process, and enforcement of maintenance orders between Namibian and foreign countries. And to process clients' complaints against their legal practitioners by forwarding them to the Disciplinary Committee and to process various applications that must be dealt with by Board for Legal Education. And to coordinate GRN human rights programmes and deal with the relevant legal matters in relation to SADC, AU, the Commonwealth and UN effectively and professionally.

Our functions include:

Directorate: Legal Services and International Cooperation provides services in terms of, and regulated, by various national statues and Treaties and other international arrangements.

The Directorate carries out, among others, the following main functions.